Agustin P. Justo

Agustin Pedro Justo (26 February 1876-11 January 1943) was the President of Argentina from 1932 to 1938, succeeding Jose Felix Uriburu and preceding Roberto M. Ortiz.

Biography
Agustin Pedro Justo was born on 26 February 1876 in Concepcion de Uruguay, Entre Rios, Argentina, the son of the older Agustin Justo, the Governor of Corrientes Province and a national deputy. Justo went to the national military college at the age of eleven, and he took part in the 1890 Revolution of the Park, where he was arrested but later given amnesty and graduated with the rank of ensign. By 1904 he was a military engineer with the rank of Captain, and in 1922 he became Minister of War under Marcelo T. de Alvear, becoming Major-General in 1927. In 1930 he took part in a coup and was elected as President of Argentina in 1932 at the head of the Justicialist Party, a paternal autocratic party. Justo agreed to the controversial 1933 Roca-Runciman Treaty, which allowed for the United Kingdom to limit their imports of Argentine beef while giving them some power over Argentina; one of his enemies, Lisandro de la Torre, refused to say that Argentina could even be a commonwealth realm of Britain, saying that the British treated its own subjects with more humility. Justo left power in 1938, and he died in 1943 at the age of 67.